Well there was a benevolent dictator in the recent past (upto 1995), when the grid was publicly owned.
My understanding is most wind was bought at a guarenteed price by the government at the time of construction, so a wind farm producing 1MWh gets paid say £40 regardless of the cost of electricity on the grid - even if…
It looks like there's just one HVDC interaliand link capable of sending 1.2GW, and dating back to 1964. Why not install 7 more? That would allow the entire current demand for the entire of NZ to come from the south…
At some point there will be more bang for buck to increase the north/south capacity. The price they're talking seems to be very low compared with other infrastructure. Sure it takes 6 years to build two 2GW links, so…
Well there was a benevolent dictator in the recent past (upto 1995), when the grid was publicly owned.
My understanding is most wind was bought at a guarenteed price by the government at the time of construction, so a wind farm producing 1MWh gets paid say £40 regardless of the cost of electricity on the grid - even if…
It looks like there's just one HVDC interaliand link capable of sending 1.2GW, and dating back to 1964. Why not install 7 more? That would allow the entire current demand for the entire of NZ to come from the south…
At some point there will be more bang for buck to increase the north/south capacity. The price they're talking seems to be very low compared with other infrastructure. Sure it takes 6 years to build two 2GW links, so…